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[hider=A Brief Timeline]
[list][*]131 AC - Dance of the Dragons ends, Aegon III crowned at 10
[*]136 AC - Aegon III's regency ends
[*]153 AC - Last dragon dies
[*]157 AC - Aegon III dies at 36 of consumption and son Daeron crowned at 14
[*]157 AC - Conquest of Dorne begins
[*]161 AC - Dorne rebels, Daeron is killed, Baelor is crowned
[*]171 AC - Baelor dies, the crown bypasses his sister, and his uncle, Viserys is crowned 
[*]172 AC - Viserys II dies and Aegon IV is crowned
[*]174 AC - Attempted and failed invasion of Dorne
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[hider=Members of House Targaryen]
[list][*]King Aegon IV (43) and sister-wife Queen Naerys (40)
[indent][list][*]Prince Daeron (25) and wife Myriah Martell (27)
[indent][list][*]Baelor (8)
[*]Aerys (5)
[*]Rhaegel (4)
[*]Maekar (1)[/list][/indent]
[*]Princess Daenerys(6)[/list][/indent]
[*]Lord Commander Aemon Targaryen of the Kingsguard (42)
[*]Princess Daena (33)
[indent][list][*]Daemon Waters (8) by Aegon Targaryen (unacknowledged)[/list][/indent]
[*]Princess Rhaena (31)
[*]Princess Elaena (28) 
[hider=Princess Elaena][Center][b][color=9370D8][h3]Elaena Targaryen[/h3][/color][/b]
[img]https://i.ibb.co/TxrPxZdK/Elaena2.jpg[/img][img]https://i.ibb.co/h1t7pxSw/Elaena.jpg[/img]
[b][color=9370D8][h3]House Targaryen[/h3][/color][/b][/Center]
[b][color=9370D8]Age:[/color][/b] 28 (150 AC)
[b][color=9370D8]Appearance:[/color][/b]
[indent]In her childhood, Elaena was often compared to her sisters as the unfortunate one. When she was sent to the Maidenvault at just eleven namedays, she was said to be [i]a skinny little thing[/i]. While both Daena and Rhaena were recognized as great beauties, Elaena was not. Soft lilac eyes and striking pale hair with a gash of bright gold could not outweigh the awkward angles of her body, thin lips, and often with an angry expression that did nothing to soften the harshness of her appearance. Her unusual hair was the one thing everyone found striking about the girl and in a plea to escape her confinement, she cut it off. In rebellion, she has never again grown it long, not even in adulthood once released. 

Often emulating Daena, she took to wearing all black as a child. A habit that followed her through adulthood, it is rare to find her wearing anything other than black dresses and gowns, though she retains a fondness for auquamarine adornments. Now approaching her thirties and after mutliple pregnanies, the angularity and awkwardness of youth has been softened. [/indent]

[b][color=9370D8]Description & biography:[/color][/b]
[indent]As a young girl, Elaena was closest to her uncle, Viserys. As the youngest child, even in more standard families, it would not have been surprising if the girl was forgotten or left to her own devices. As the daughter of Aegon III, it surely would have been expected. She has few memories of her father and those she has are fleeting and blurry. She grew up knowing what people thought of him; the sullen, brooding king who cared little for anything except occasionally for the hint of a smile her mother or uncle brought him. Her mother died not long after her elder brother Daeron, a rush of horrific news that culminated with being locked away inside a gilded cage. 

Her uncle Viserys filled a gap the young girl didn't know needed to be filled. Even then, his own duties pulled him away more frequently, and in adolescence she was left to fill her time with her sisters and their endless, rotating ladies. Daena was too angry and Rhaena, while not content at their seclusion, was acquiescent. Her sisters were all she had that were truly hers, and yet…The relationship with her sisters was far from healthy. It was not uncommon to find them red-faced in an agrument with one another and hours later secluded with one another, nursing the hidden wounds captivity inflicted on them. Their ladies-in-waiting, the intelligent ones anyways, learned quickly that there was no point in trying to turn them against one another. The trio of princesses always gave a united front against any who came against one of them. 

That relationship wasn't what she had had with either brother. Daeron was crowned when Elaena was just seven and died when she was ten, seven years her elder, there was little to make them close. Baelor had always been different and there had been nothing to endear them to one another even before he inherited the crown and sought to hide his sisters away from lust or lusting. 

Daena may have been defiant, but Elaena was no less angry, though she did not act on it as Daena did. Desperate to leave, she cut off her hair in an attempt to mar the beauty her brother so feared. No matter that it did not work, she would never grow it longer than shoulder length again. While Rhaena seemed able to acquiesce in silent suffering, Elaena used the time to learn of things that would otherwise not have been allowed. She read voraciously, on matters of state and coin. Her ladies-in-waiting did not typically share her interests, but would bring tomes and treatises from their family's personal libraries or from elsewhere in the Red Keep that the princesses could not access. Towards the end of her time in the Maidenvault, Elaena had even begun to pass along advice to those who were all too happy to praise their own intellect in financial matters rather than give due to the young Princess. 

Upon release from the Maidenvault, Elaena quickly and tragically fell for Alyn Velaryon, thirty-five years her elder and married to her father's half-sister, Baela. No matter how she had chided Daena for her dalliance with Aegon, or how Rhaena chided her for the affair, Elaena would be not be dissuaded. It was love, fast and fierce, and she would not hear that Alyn did not return those feelings. Within a year of meeting her beloved, she gave birth to twins, Jon and Jeyne. They were bastards, though the princess briefly held hope they would be legitimized when Baela died and Alyn was at last free to marry her instead. Aegon refused to allow it until Alyn returned from a voyage he demanded. Lord Velaryon never returned and Elaena was certain her heart would never recover. 

After much pressure, she finally relented and ended her grieving, agreeing to marry Lord Ossifer Plumm, a political match through and through. He died on their wedding night and rumors quickly rose up that it had been her cousin, King Aegon, who had gotten her with the child she would name Viserys Plumm, in honor of her uncle. Elaena, unlike Daena, had never cared for their cousin. In their younger days, Aegon had indeed attempted to bed her like he had her sister, but Elaena would swear upon any of the Seven, upon Viserys, upon her dead father and mother, that Aegon had never actually laid a hand on her. It did not stop the rumors, much to her chagrin. 

In the aftermath of losing her first love, a man she swore would forever be her only love, and the loss of her husband, Elaena again finds the men of her life contriving to wed her again in a favorable match. Regardless of age and the sin of her twin bastards, there are endless lesser lords who would wed her for being able to claim a Targaryen bride. The King is far from being above selling his cousin for coppers in comparison to her worth. If she would be forced to marry again, the Targaryen Princess at least plans to make this second include benefits for her beyond the opportunity to leave Aegon's court. Multiple previous entreaties to Aegon to allow her to aid his council have so far fallen flat. With a proper marriage, perhaps there would be more room to have an influence. 

Crone knows her cousin could use more than the typical sycophants who attended him. [/indent][/hider]
[indent][list][*]Jon (6) and Jeyne (6) Waters by Alyn Velaryon
[*]Lord Viserys Plumm (1) by Ossifer Plumm[/list][/indent]
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[hider=Mistresses and Bastards]
[list][*]Current Mistress Bethany Bracken (16)
[*]Megette - Alysanne (23), Lilly (22), Willow (21), Rosey (20) - all Septas in the Riverlands
[*]Belegere of House Otherys - Bellenora (16), Narha (13), Balerion (9) - all in Braavos
[*]Falena Stokeworth - Jeyne Lothston (14) [i]Alleged[/i] - House Lothston of Harrenhal 
[*]Daena Targaryen - Daemon Waters (8) 
[*]Barba Bracken - Aegor Waters (6)
[*]Melissa Blackwood - Mya Waters(6), Gwenys Waters(4), Brynden Waters(3)
[*]Elaena Targaryen - Viserys Plumm (1) [i]Alleged[/i]
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[hider=The Small Council]
[list][*][b]Hand of the King[/b]: Lord Jon Hightower
[*][b]Master of Coin[/b]: Lord Ambrose Butterwell
[*][b]Master of Laws[/b]: TBD
[*][b]Master of Ships[/b]: TBD
[*][b]Master of Whispers[/b]: TBD
[*][b]Lord Commander of the Kingsguard[/b]: Ser Aemon Targaryen
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[hider=The Kingsguard]
[list][*]LC Aemon Targaryen
[*]Terrence Toyne
[*][i]Kenric Darry[/i]
[*][i]Jason Lannister[/i]
[*][i]Peron Stone[/i]
[*][i]Galfrid Velaryon[/i]
[*][i]Peron Dannett[/i]
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[indent]House Stark[/indent]
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[indent]House Arryn[/indent]
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[indent]House Tully[/indent]
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[indent]House Lannister[/indent]
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[indent]House Tyrell[/indent]
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[indent]House Baratheon
[hider=House Swann][center][color=A9A9A9][b][u][h1]House Swann of Stonehelm[/h1][/u][/b][/color]
[img]https://i.ibb.co/whMLNB1g/House-Swann-Shield.png[/img]
[h3][b][color=A9A9A9]None So Just[/color][/b][/h3][/center]
[h3][b][color=A9A9A9]House Description:[/color][/b][/h3]
[indent]House Swann is one of the primary noble houses of the stormlands. They are an ancient house, claiming to be the oldest and disputed only by fellow marchers, House Caron. Their lands cover the lands surrounding the Red Watch on Cape Wrath in the eastern Dornish Marches. They control the Slayne, a major river and route inland to the Stormlands, resulting in their wealth and power. Like all Marcher lords, they have stood as protectors and instigators to incursions with the Dornish. [/indent]

[h3][b][color=A9A9A9]Recent History:[/color][/b][/h3]
[indent]House Swann declared for the Greens during the Dance, at the time led by Lord Clifford who saw it as only right that the first son should inherit, no matter a daughter's hurt feelings. Lord Clifford's brother, Ser Bryon, desperate to assure a lasting legacy, sought to slay Rhaenyra's dragon. Ser Bryon's plan was a complete failure, he was quickly engulfed in flames and died screaming. 

Ser Bryon's cousin, the Lady Johanna, had been taken to Lys years earlier by pirates. Lord Clifford had refused to pay the ransom for his fifteen year old niece and so she was sold to the pillow houses. Out of the hundreds of children, young men and girls that the Lyseni pirates took during this time, Johanna proved herself adept at navigating the unfamiliar and abusive environment she found herself abandoned to. She became the most influential of courtesans and ruled Lys in all but name. Following the Triarchy's collapse and the Daughter's War, she was briefly thought lost and dead. She resurfaced, with regular correspondence to her family in Stonehelm, particularly the daughters, until her death in 175 AC. 

Lord Allos had been an eager participant in the Conquest of Dorne, though his mood was tempered when he and his men served under the command of Lord Tyrell. Bad blood was not only between the Marcher lord and the Dornish. Reachman had been a thorn in their side even after Aegon's Conquest unified Westeros beneath the Iron Throne. The short-lived subjugation meant House Swann and their neighbors dealt with many more years of heightened hostilities with their southward counterparts. This left a worse taste in the Swann lord's mouth under the rules of Baelor and now Aegon. They held the line against the snakes, and reaped nothing for the effort. 

Most recently, House Swann has sought to resolidify their Stormlands power and secured a marriage with the Lord Paramount through Alys Swann. The current lord, Allos, had served as councilor to the Lord Paramount for many years as well. That relationship has begun to strain when he was ordered to return home when his wife passed unexpectedly from a brief but aggressive wasting disease. His son, Ser Gawen, holds to his father's ideals but the younger siblings have been swayed by the stories they hear from King's Landing. A crack has formed in House's foundation, small and currently inconsequential, but too easy to grow into collapse.[/indent]

[h3][b][color=A9A9A9]Family Members:[/color][/b][/h3]
[List][*]Lord Allos - b. 120 (age 58)
[indent][list][*]Lady Paramount Alys - b. 144 (age 34)
[*]Ser Gawen - b. 147 (age 31)
[indent][list][*]Balon - b. 170 (age 8)
[*]Lucinda - b. 175 (age 3)
[*]Willem - b. 177 (age 1) [/list][/indent]
[*]Ser Denys - b. 151 (age 27)
[*]Olorra - b. 155 (age 23)
[*]Olor - b. 155 (age 23) 
[*]Rhea - b. 157 (age 21)
[*]Bryon - b. 160 (age 18)[/list][/indent]
[*]Ser Galbert - b. 125 (age 53) + wife & 4 grown children
[*]Maester Leslyn - b. 127 (age 51)
[*]Lady Bonessa - b. 131 (age 47)
[*]Lady Andria - b. 136 (42)
[*][s]Lady Johanna, The Black Swan - 90-175[/s]
[*][s]Ser Bryon - 102-130[/s]
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[hider=The Heir]
[Center][img]https://i.ibb.co/TqtTG8xB/Gawen-Swann.png[/img]
[b][color=A9A9A9][h3]Ser Gawen[/h3][/color][/b][/Center]

[b][color=A9A9A9]Age:[/color][/b] 34 (147 AC)
[b][color=A9A9A9]Appearance:[/color][/b]
[indent]A man knighted over a decade ago, he remains trim and strong, though age and leisure have begun to soften the hard warrior edges. His skin is weathered with an assortment of old, healed scars from battles in the Dornish Marches. Gawen does not tower over other men but has a quiet prowess that still causes others to look up to meet his hard gaze. 

His dark brown hair is speckled with new gray that would also highlight his beard, should he ever let one grow other than when on extended travel. He moves with a deceptive heaviness for his frame, as if he were in full armor and not his court doublet and trousers.[/indent]


[b][color=A9A9A9]Description & biography:[/color][/b]
[indent]Gawen's childhood was in a time of relative peace from the end of Aegon III's regency until the Conquest of Dorne. He was close to his elder sister, Alys, and to his younger brother Denys. There were too many years between him and the younger siblings, and his duties that would take him away from Stonehelm for much of each year. 

He squired for a distant cousin in House Connington, his youthful days guided by martial training, long lectures from Maesters, and, over time, with his father's knights harassing the Dornish. He spent time in Storm's End, alongside his father who frequently served in the Baratheon court and provided council. Gawen was an astute boy, quick to learn many talents even if he mastered none. More importantly, he was only occasionally known for brashness; one incident in particular against a peer from House Caron had him punished with pointless manual labor for weeks. Not because he bloodied and broke the boy's nose, but for the embarrassment of such a public outburst.

Marriage to House Mertyns was out of practicality, the woman was being courted by House Caron, and with a strong marriage already made to their liege lord, Gawen's father was pleased to swing the local political scale to House Swann. It has been a fruitful and respectful union, although not one of great love or fondness. 

As Lord Allos ages, Gawen can see his future as Lord of Stonehelm approaching more quickly. Known for caution, he sees a future that requires action beyond their home. From anyone else, his father would have suspicions, but from his heir, he agreed with the cause behind the excursion to King's Landing. Their position in the Stormlands was certain, Gawen sought to expand that power and influence. In Aegon IV's rule, the ancient house can only do so by braving the dangers of his court. 
[/indent]
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[hider=The Twins]
[Center][img]https://i.ibb.co/6RwqdxpG/Olorra-Swann.jpg[/img][img]https://i.ibb.co/Rk2KddTK/Olor-Swann.jpg[/img]
[b][color=A9A9A9][h3]Olorra and Olor[/h3][/color][/b][/Center]

[b][color=A9A9A9]Age:[/color][/b] 23 (155 AC)
[b][color=A9A9A9]Appearance:[/color][/b]
[indent]The twins are of similar height, Olor on the short side of his peers and Olorra taller than hers. Olor is broad and sturdy compared to his sister's willowy grace. But both share a clear visual likeness, assuredly two sides of the same Swann coin. They share the same thick brown hair, Olorra's in waves she's grown to the small of her back, and Olor's kept longer than his father would like, below his ears. Their eyes are atypical from the rest of their siblings, hazel so pale it verges on gray. 

It is Olorra who appears the more serious of the two, a somber facade and icy shell. Olor exudes more warmth and is more likely to offer a welcoming smile or sly grin. She dresses for function and agrees to fine silks and laces only when threatened. He prefers the luxury of good clothing barring when the physicality of a hunt calls for more practical garments.  [/indent]
[b][color=A9A9A9]Description & biography:[/color][/b]
[indent]The Maesters had assured her that she did not carry twins. Olorra was born first, a quiet babe that the midwives fretted over as Lady Swann remained in labor. Olor was born thrashing and wailing. As third son and the Lord's fourth and fifth children, though, the twins were overwhelming left to their own devices after their surprise birth, along with the last two siblings who were born to the noble pair. 

The twins were always closer to each other than to their elder or younger siblings. As young children, Olor and Olorra would often be found speaking to each other quietly with words that sounded familiar but unidentifiable. As they grew, this specific closeness dissipated but the two were never found far from the other. Even as they began to take charge of the dynamic with the youngest two children, Rhea and Bryon, the twins were closer still.

Both share a love of hunting. In adolescence through young adulthood, he grew to appreciate books and theories over anything more martial. There had been a brief push to send the boy to the Citadel. Uncharacteristly for Olor, he vehemently fought against the mere suggestion that he would be removed from Stonehelm and from Olorra. He has a good mind for many subjects regardless, and remains an affable young man. Both Allos and Gawen found benefit in sending Olor on more diplomatic endeavors rather than waste his abilities lounging at court. 

On the other side of the coin, Olorra is stand-offish with any outside the family. Betrothals were sought when she was younger, but she avoided doing anything more the minimum of appearing at court and being physically present. She was more intended in the martial training her brother was not. However, Lord Allos had no desire for a daughter to take up the sword. He allowed for falconry and archery, and could not entirely keep the girl away from watching his master-at-arms train their men. The lady has no interest in raiding their Dornish neighbors or leading a knightly charge, but she does appreciate the physicality and strength it provides, should she have been welcomed to the training beyond a few times she attempted to dress as a boy to join in. 

Olorra had little interest of her own in going to King's Landing with her brothers, yet where Olor went, so too would she. Neither sibling as any delusions that Gawen also hopes to make a marriage alliance for both of them while at court. They both, perhaps foolishly, to find a way to remain beside the other even after their respective marriages. Olor intends to grow close to his sister's prospective husband and forge an alliance of his own, no matter where his family may send him in the future.   [/indent]
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[indent]House Martell[/indent]
[u][h3]Other Westerosi Characters[/h3][/u]
[indent][hider=Serenei of Lys][Center][b][color=f3ccff][h3]Serenei of Lys[/h3][/color][/b]
[img]https://i.ibb.co/pBR7gCwN/Sweet-Serenei.jpg[/img]
[b][color=f3ccff][h3]House Sathmantes[/h3][/color][/b][/Center]
[b][color=f3ccff]Age:[/color][/b] 26 (156 AC)
[b][color=f3ccff]Appearance:[/color][/b]
[indent]Tall and curvy with strong High Valyrian traits. Her hair is pale silver with brilliant lilac eyes. No matter the current fashions of court in King's Landing, she prefers to wear typical Lyseni dresses in crisp whites, gold jewelry set with pearls and delicate gem stones. Her age has been difficult for people to determine, clearly she is not a young blushing maiden, yet many find there is an age to her that does not match her stated namedays. Nor has anyone been able to point out what it is that makes them suspect this. Her skin is fair and unblemished, unmarred by wrinkles, laugh nor frownlines. A body of soft curves promises a warm embrace, but her the harshness of her face makes it clear that the embrace would be full of thorns. [/indent]

[b][color=f3ccff]Description & biography:[/color][/b]
[indent]The Lyseni arrived to King's Landing mere weeks ago, dangling from the arm of the Hand to the King, Lord Jon Hightower. Though many might have thought the rumor mills of the capital to already be full and near to bursting, her arrival brought new life to whisperers and watchers. Gossip formed and mutated as it spread among both high and low. She was the last scion of an ancient but dying true Valyrian house. She was the Hand's lover. She was a witch who entranced the Lord of Hightower. She dabbled in dark magics of blood and fire. She was a spy. She was cousin to House Rogare and here to exact revenge all these years later. She was yet another of Aegon's bastards, come to snake her way to some sort of claim. She was a courtesan sent to seduce Daeron away from his Dornish wife, or Aemon away from his vows. The newest whispers revolve around her age and how she must most certainly be older than she says or appears to be. 

Few have gotten to know the woman. Outside of the rumors that abound, she has proven difficult to get close to other than Lord Jon. She attends court daily, sometimes at Lord Jon's side but other times alone. Serenei is cold and distant, frequently with a haughty sneer across her lips as she watches everyone around her. Her solitude and lack of allies or friends does not bother her. Invitations have been made and accepted, yet even in these smaller groups, The Lady from Lys holds herself away from others. 

What she has shared with others has been the truth, though only in small bites and crumbs of details. Serenei is the last daughter of a once mighty house from Lys. Her family claims an ancient blood tie to Valyria before the Doom. More personal questions to her history or reasons for being in Westeros go unanswered, returned only with a cold smile and excuse to depart from the conversation. She has so far, at least, not attempted to ingratiate herself with any of House Targaryen, though she has often been seen watching the King. Unsettling to some, have been the looks she has been seen giving to king's current mistress, Lady Bethany. 

In a court of scandal, interest wains when so much else goes on. Lady Serenei seems to bide her time, as apathetic to being ignored as to being pressed upon.  [/indent]

[b][color=f3ccff]On House Sathmantes:[/color][/b]
[indent]Few in Westeros know much of House Sathmantes. The family was once wealthy like the Rogares, led by a merchant prince, yet fell onto hard times following the Daughters' War. They were nearly wiped out in the conflict, and their wealth greatly dissipated. With such an ancient family, it was the not the first time of hardship, but it has proven difficult for them to make the connections necessary to rebuild. 

Regardless of financial issues, the Lysene House still claims strong Valyian blood and would be sought after by some who prioritized such matters. The many rumors surrounding Serenei would not be unfounded in that regard. Making a strong alliance to House Targaryen, whether formally through marriage or through less savory means, would go far in helping the family rebuild.  [/indent][/hider][/indent]